Scala for the Impatient, 3rd Edition

Chapter 13. Collections

Topics in This Chapter A2

• 13.1 The Main Collections Traits

• 13.2 Mutable and Immutable Collections

• 13.3 Sequences

• 13.4 Lists

• 13.5 Sets

• 13.6 Operators for Adding or Removing Elements

• 13.7 Common Methods

• 13.8 Mapping a Function

• 13.9 Reducing, Folding, and Scanning A3

• 13.10 Zipping

• 13.11 Iterators

• 13.12 Lazy Lists A3

• 13.13 Interoperability with Java Collections

• Exercises

In this chapter, you will learn about the Scala collections library from a library user’s point of view. In addition to arrays and maps, which you have already encountered, you will see other useful collection types. There are many methods that can be applied to collections, and this chapter presents them in an orderly way.

The key points of this chapter ...